We’re excited about an upcoming course from BenPat Institute April 23-24 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Together with Dr. Terry Bennett, this is an all-inclusive course called the “Intraoral Orthotics for [...]
In the first official joint guideline from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM), oral appliance therapy is recommended for the [...]
If treatment of sleep apnea occurs immediately after a stroke or mini-stroke, new research shows that it may improve patients’ neurological symptoms and daily functioning. More than 20 million [...]
Our patients should not have a problem sleeping--it should be a simple solution. When it’s nighttime and you get tired, going to bed should be the least of our [...]
Managing diabetes requires a "day-in, day-out" effort to control the factors that affect blood sugar levels. And what might make it even more difficult to manage symptoms is if [...]
Since the new hypertension guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association was released in November 2017, the way physicians diagnose and treat high blood [...]
We understand how successful treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be. However, we need to pay attention to the potential side effects from long-term oral appliance use. If [...]
In a recent study from the journal Sleep Medicine researchers looked at the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with an oral appliance (OA). There is currently no gold [...]
It’s an important question that many of us continue to wonder about - why aren’t more sleep physicians recommending oral appliances for sleep apnea? Well, to begin with, there [...]
This is important to think about: We are lying to ourselves if we don’t embrace alternative therapies other than continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for patients with sleep apnea. [...]
